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“Now my sisters and I no longer lie around in the hay talking. We aren't all in the same place the way we were last year and other years. And when we happen to be together it's as if there is a new awkwardness, as if we had betrayed one another by doing our own thing.

Certainly some day the awkwardness will pass, though time will never undo the betrayal.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“The day is hot, the mind empty, the leaves motionless, the body and soul, too. We try to give meaning to what we see.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Chaos and nothingness merged with eternity, staying with him like the scent of cyclamen and heather that filled the forest, and like the sound of her voice echoing in the ravine.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Mario wants to hold that highlight in his hands, but reflections can't be held. A sadness overcomes him. How is it possible for someone to read about anatomy all afternoon, to put everything that he learns in perfect order, and then suddenly for him to get it into his head that he wants to hold a reflection?”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers